Tributes have flooded in for wrestling legend Scott Hall, who will be taken off life support, his friend and fellow New World Order (NWO) founder Kevin Nash announced.
Hall, who performed as Razor Ramon in WWE and Scott “Gator” Hall in WCW was put on life support after he suffered three heart attacks on the weekend during complications from hip replacement surgery, according to reports.
Hall, 63, was at a hospital in Georgia in America’s south to repair a broken hip after he fell.
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The wrestler experienced trouble with his heart in the past, which resulted in him getting a defibrillator and pacemaker implanted in his chest.
“Scott’s on life support. Once his family is in place they will discontinue life support,” Nash wrote in an emotional tribute to Hall on Instagram.
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“I’m going to lose the one person on this planet I’ve spent more of my life with than anyone else,” Nash continued in his Instagram message. My heart is broken and I’m so very f—ing sad.
“I love Scott with all my heart but now I have to prepare my life without him in the present. I’ve been blessed to have a friend that took me at face value and I him.
“When we jumped to WCW we didn’t care who liked or hated us. We had each other and with the smooth Barry Bloom we changed wrestling both in content and pay for those.
“Scott always felt he wasn’t worthy of the afterlife. Well God please have some gold plated toothpicks for my brother. My life was enriched with his take on life. He wasn’t perfect but as he always said, ‘The last perfect person to walk the planet they nailed to a cross’.
“As we prepare for life without him just remember there goes a great guy you ain’t going to see another one like him again. See Ya down the road Scott. I couldn’t love a human being any more than I do you.”
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Hall and Nash left WWE to join wrestling promotion WCW in 1996 and created the NWO, along with Hulk Hogan, which saw the group become extremely popular with fans. It was also a hit with executives, with the famous Monday Night Wars between WCW’s Nitro and WWE’s Raw created as a result.
Heartfelt messages for Hall from wrestling fans and former wrestlers hit the internet after Nash’s devastating message.
Pro wrestler Matt Cardona commented on Instagram: “He changed my life. This is horrible news.”
Reporter John Russo tweeted: “Absolutely devastating seeing the news about Scott Hall. His struggles have been known for years, and it was a blessing seeing him after his recovery years ago. Hall was the quintessential heel, ‘The Bad Guy’. They don’t make ’em like they used to. Thank you, Chico.”
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